Texel has many entrepreneurs, with local retailers, craftsmen, consultants, building contractors, transporters, hosts and so on. A 100% self-sufficient Texel may be driven by sustainable entrepreneurs, who leave behind conventional production methods, products, market structures and consumption patterns, and practice sustainable products and services in the market dynamics of environmental and societal progress. How may a sustainable island economy, which supports self-sufficiency, look like and be achieved?
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Overview
Sustainable Entrepreneurship Report
This report discusses the subsystem of sustainable entrepreneurship, analyses the current state of the Texel subsystem as well as design a… -
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Interviews Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Apart from the strategy design and analysing the problem, several interviews with experts were conducted throughout the semester in order to gain more insight into the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship. -
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On-site research Sustainable Entrepreneurship
On Tuesday 12th January 2016 Texel on-site research is organised in order to gain more insights into the system from the local perspective. -
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Support local products with international innovation
TexLabs is a non-profit organisation that supports innovative innitatives at Texel to stimulate local knowledge development and the… -
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Reflections on innovation on location
Last summer I unexpectedly but gladly became part of a very interesting initiative, called DORP at Welcome To The Village Festival. It all started with the fact that me and my friend won the D-exto design competition for sustainable festival furniture, which made it possible for us to execute our design and to showcase it at several festivals by traveling along with the D-exto pavilion. D-exto -
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Knowledge x Skills
Initiators Pepijn and Vivianne brought together the municipality, the secondary school, and entrepreneurs at Texel to widen and improve the…